TASTE Live at Rizzoli with David Lebovitz

Rizzoli Bookstore collaborates with TASTE to celebrate acclaimed cookbook author and pastry chef David Lebovitz and his new book.

TASTE Live at Rizzoli invites you to celebrate The Great Book of Chocolate, Revised by David Lebovitz, the latest edition of everybody's favorite connoisseur of all things chocolate.

TASTE Live at Rizzoli welcomes David Lebovitz, acclaimed cookbook author and pastry chef.

Hosted by Matt Rodbard and recorded live for This Is TASTE followed by a signing.

PLEASE NOTE:

• This event is ticketed. Tickets include a copy of the book (ticket price = $24.99 + sales tax + Eventbrite fee).
• To pick up your book, please check in at the cash registers with the name your ticket is under. More copies will be available for purchase while supplies last.
• This event is mixed seated/standing. Seating is limited and will be first come, first served. Doors open at 5:30 pm.
• Can't attend? Order your signed copy here (please specify that you would like it signed in the comments box at checkout).

A completely revised edition of David Lebovitz's comprehensive guide to everything chocolate, featuring more than fifty rich and decadent recipes—including fifteen that are brand new—for chocolatey cookies, brownies, cakes, truffles, ice cream, and more.

Pastry chef and professional baker David Lebovitz is a master of perfectly pitched desserts and irreverent humor—a combination that has won him and his books hundreds of thousands of fans.

In this fully updated edition of The Great Book of Chocolate, Lebovitz discusses the history of chocolate, bean-to-bar producers, chocolate shops in Paris (and his time working in a Belgian chocolate shop!), while also sharing invaluable tips for baking with, sourcing, storing, and using everybody's favorite ingredient. Fifteen new recipes join Lebovitz's classics, for a total of more than fifty recipes, including Melting Chocolate Cakes, Chocolate Cherry Buttermilk Scones, Chocolate Espresso Cookies, Chocolate Chip Pecan Pie, Vegan Chocolate Marshmallows, and even a Chocolate Negroni.

Featuring all new photography from Paris and San Francisco, The Great Book of Chocolate, Revised, is a sweet treat for home bakers and chocolate lovers alike.

David Lebovitz has been a pastry chef and professional baker for most of his life; he spent nearly thirteen years at Chez Panisse until he left the restaurant business in 1999 to write books. He moved to Paris in 2004 and turned his website into a phenomenally popular blog, and now one of the top Substack newsletters in the food and drink category. He is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous cookbooks, including My Paris Kitchen, The Perfect Scoop, Ready for Dessert, Revised, and Drinking French, and two memoirs, The Sweet Life in Paris and L'Appart. He was named one of the top five pastry chefs in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Chronicle. Lebovitz has also been featured in Bon Appétit, Food & Wine, Cook's Illustrated, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Saveur, Travel + Leisure, and more.

Matt Rodbard is a writer, editor, and author of food and culture books with more than two decades of experience working in television, magazines, book publishing, and online media. He’s the author of Koreaworld: A Cookbook, named 2025 IACP Cookbook of Year and nominated for a 2025 James Beard Award, Koreatown: A Cookbook, a New York Times Bestseller, and Food IQ, a Publishers Weekly Bestseller and winner of a 2023 IACP Cookbook Award. He’s the Founding Editor of online food and culture magazine TASTE, winner of three James Beard Awards.